PUBLICATIONS

Caira, J.N., Pickering, M., Schulman, A.D., and N.J. Hanessian IV. Two new species of Echinobothrium (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from batoids off South Africa.Submitted to Comparative Parasitology May 2012.

Pickering, M. and J.N. Caira. 2012. A new hyperapolytic species, Trilocularia eberti n.sp. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea), from Squalus cf. mitsukurii (Squaliformes: Squalidae) off South Africa with comments on its development and fecundity. Folia Parasitologica. 59(2):107-114.

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. Seasonal dynamics of the cestode fauna in spiny dogfish populations off the coast of Rhode Island. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Richmond, Virginia. July 2012.

Katz, T.*, J. N. Caira, and M. Pickering. Reevaluation of the genus Caulobothrium (Cestoda; Tetraphyllidea) results in the discovery of remarkable morphological features. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Richmond, Virginia. July 2012.

Bernot, J.P.*, J. N. Caira and M. Pickering. David and Goliath: Examination of additional complexity in the genus Calliobothrium (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) in smoothhound sharks of the genus Mustelus (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae). National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Richmond, Virginia. July 2012.

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. Trilocularia: An example of challenges in tetraphyllidean species designations. 7th International Workshop on Cestode Systematics. Lawrence, Kansas, July 2011.

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. A cautionary tale about the (mis)use of distinctive morphological characters in species indentification: a case study using the cestode genus Trilocularia. 2nd International Congress of Invertebrate Morphology. Harvard University, Boston, Massachussetts. June, 2011. (Invited)

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. . Expansion of the cestode genus Trilocularia: An investigation across shark hosts and oceans. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Anchorage, Alaska. June 2011.

Bernot, J.P.*, J. N. Caira and M. Pickering. Cestode morphology as predicted by elasmobranch relationships: Calliobothrium in smooth hound sharks of the genus Mustelus. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Anchorage, Alaska. June 2011.

Schulman, A.D.*, M. Pickering, and J. N. Caira. New diphyllideans from the spotted skate (Raja straeleni) from South Africa. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Anchorage, Alaska, June 2011. (Poster presentation)

2010

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. Examining the newly circumscribed species boundaries in the sharks Squalus acanthias and Squalus suckleyi with cestodes from 3 disparate localities: the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. 12th International Congress of Parasitology, Melbourne, Australia. August 2010. (Poster presentation)

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. Examining the cestode taxon Trilocularia in 2 host shark species and across 3 disparate localities. New England Assocition of Parasitologists. University of Massachussetts, Amherst. November 2010.

Pickering, M.* and J. N. Caira. A cestode test of newly circumscribed species boundaries in the sharks Squalus acanthias and Squalus suckleyi. National Meeting of the American Society of Parastiologists. Colorado Springs, Colorado, July, 2010.

2009

Pickering, M.*, J. N. Caira and G. Costa. Characterization of the cestode fauna of a deepwater squaliform shark from Madeira. National meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Knoxville, Tennessee, June 2009.

Pickering, M.*, J. N. Caira Spiral intestine cestodes in the Piked dogfish (Squalus acanthias) across space and time. The First North American Parasitology Congress, Annual meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists. Mérida, Mexico, June 2007.